FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 14, 1958 Lewis wrote to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to accept his invitation to become a member of the Commission to Revise the Psalter. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIX (First …
CSL Daily 11/05/17
FACT OF THE DAY: After being released in the UK earlier in 1958, Reflections of the Psalms came out in the US the same year on November 5th. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A little comic relief in a discussion does no harm, however serious the topic may be. (In my own experience the funniest …
CSL Daily 9/08/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis was on the cover of Time on September 8, 1947. Reflections on the Psalms came out today in 1958. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.” Reflections …
CSL Daily 8/31/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Poem “Vowels and Sirens” came out in The Times Literary Supplement Special Autumn Issue in late August, 1952. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [After explaining some weaknesses in a child’s stories:] “I hope you don’t mind me telling you all this? One can learn only by seeing one’s mistakes. Letter …
CSL Daily 8/19/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis began recording on August 19, 1958 the first half of a 10-part radio series about four types of love. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To nearly all ancient men, and to many medieval men, friendship seemed the most valuable and the most completely human of all natural loves. …
CSL Daily 7/21/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The poem known today as The Magician and the Dryad was first published in Punch on July 20, 1949. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The feeling of being, or not being, forgiven and loved, is not what matters. One must come down to brass tacks. If there is a particular sin …
CSL Daily 7/20/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Willing Slaves of the Welfare State was published July 20, 1958 in The Observer. It was part of series on Is Progress Possible? – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to …
CSL Daily 7/9/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Revival or Decay?” was published in the British weekly humor magazine Punch on July 9, 1958. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.” Mere Christianity (Published in 7/7/1952)
CSL Daily 4/25/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Grand Miracle,” preached earlier this month in 1945 was printed in the April 27, 1945 issue of The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If I remember rightly, St. Augustine raised a question about the theological position of satyrs, monopods, and other semi-human creatures. He decided it could …
CSL Daily 4/21/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on April 21, 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are …